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Health officials were insisting last week a cholera outbreak in Yangon’s South Okkalapa township was under control, after hundreds of patients presented at an emergency clinic and Thingangyun Sanpa Hospital for treatment.

At a recent workshop in HaiPhong on HIV/AIDS control policies, Dang ThuanPhong, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Social Affairs, noted a decrease in foreign aid for HIV/AIDS control, as Vietnam enters the group of middle-income countries.

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Project in 2006-2010

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Emerging infectious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), avian influenza and swine flu had major economic impacts on productivity, trade and tourism in the region, and continue to pose a major public health concern. New diseases, mostly of animal origin, pose a constant threat to the region. Dengue, chikungunya, cholera, typhoid, and HIV/AIDS, fueled by better connectivity, urban development, and social and environment changes continue to spread in the region.

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The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) has become highly vulnerable to the spread of communicable diseases including emerging diseases, many of these of animal origin, vector-born diseases like malaria and dengue, and food- and water-born diseases....Read more